persecutio

Latin

Etymology

From persequor +‎ -tiō.

Noun

persecūtiō f (genitive persecūtiōnis); third declension

1. pursuit, chase
2. prosecution
3. persecution (of Christians)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	persecūtiō	persecūtiōnēs
Genitive	persecūtiōnis	persecūtiōnum
Dative	persecūtiōnī	persecūtiōnibus
Accusative	persecūtiōnem	persecūtiōnēs
Ablative	persecūtiōne	persecūtiōnibus
Vocative	persecūtiō	persecūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: persecució
• French: persécution
• Friulian: persecuzion
• Galician: persecución
• Italian: persecuzione
• Occitan: persecucion
• Piedmontese: përsecussion
• → Polish: persekucja
• Portuguese: persecução
• Romanian: persecuție, persecuțiune
• Spanish: persecución

References

• “persecutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• persecutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.